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ST. LOUIS — One morning late last month, a St. Louis courtroom filled up with prosecutors, lawyers and press who wondered if they'd catch a glimpse of a vanished man. The man, police officer Darren Wilson, hadn't been seen in public since Aug. 9, when he shot and killed an unarmed black teenager and found himself in a wave of national fury. But here, at this unrelated preliminary hearing, Wilson had incentive to appear. He'd been asked to show up to provide testimony against an alleged low-level drug dealer — somebody he'd wrestled to the ground and handcuffed 20 months earlier, in an arrest that won him a Ferguson city commendation. Now Wilson just had to...

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ST. LOUIS — One morning late last month, a St. Louis courtroom filled up with prosecutors, lawyers and press who wondered if they'd catch a glimpse of a vanished man.
The man, police officer Darren Wilson, hadn't been seen in public since Aug. 9, when he...

A year ago Tuesday the first of several hundred Seminole County residents were summoned to the Sanford courthouse for jury selection.
A half-dozen of them ultimately would decide whether former Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman was a murderer...

I'm surprised this chat between Mark O'Mara -- attorney for George Zimmerman and Benjamin Crump -- attorney for the family of Trayvon Martin -- on Geraldo Rivera's program didn't get more attention last week. I found it posted to The ...

George Zimmerman will not face federal civil-rights charges in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday, citing a lack of evidence.
In a prepared statement, U.S. Attorney General Eric...

SANFORD - George Zimmerman has no job, no home, no income but spends $100 a month on vacations and $200 a month on psychological counseling, according to a financial affidavit he recently filed in his divorce case.
Zimmerman, 30, is the former...

SANFORD — When opening statements begin in the trial of George Zimmerman Monday, prosecutors will be able to tell the jury that Trayvon Martin was profiled and Zimmerman was a "wannabe cop," the judge in the case ruled Friday.
Circuit...

SANFORD - When court resumes Tuesday morning for Day Two of testimony at George Zimmerman's murder trial, expect race to be front and center.For most of the day Monday it was not, a surprise given that the shooting launched civil rights rallies in...

In a major victory for murder suspect George Zimmerman, a judge Saturday ruled that prosecutors may not put on the witness stand two state audio experts who say the voice heard screaming for help on a 911 call was someone other than Zimmerman.Those...

SANFORD — When police Sgt. Anthony Raimondo arrived at the scene, Trayvon Martin was facedown in the grass, a bullet in his chest, his hands beneath him.Prosecutors in the George Zimmerman second-degree-murder trial showed jurors a photo of Trayvon in...

SANFORD — From the witness stand Wednesday, the state's star witness in the George Zimmerman murder trial, Rachel "Diamond" Jeantel, gave her account of Trayvon Martin's last seconds — and they were dramatic.While on the phone with Trayvon, he...

SANFORD – Rachel Jeantel, the state's star witness in the George Zimmerman murder trial, told jurors Thursday she's convinced that she heard Zimmerman hit then climb on top of Trayvon Martin.In her second day on the stand, she testified that a bump she...

SANFORD – After four days of testimony detailing the witness accounts and forensics in the case against George Zimmerman, an unusual topic stole the show at times on Friday: Combat sports.
The state and defense battled repeatedly on mixed martial arts,...

George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin, plans to ask the state of Florida to cover $200,000 to $300,000 of his legal expenses, his attorney told the Orlando Sentinel Monday evening.
Because Zimmerman was acquitted,...

A Lake Mary police spokesman said no charges are expected into allegations of domestic violence involving George Zimmerman and his estranged wife, Shellie
A iPad that reportedly captured images of what happened between the couple is badly damanged,...

Six hours after Lake Mary police announced Wednesday that they would not charge George Zimmerman with domestic violence, his estranged wife stood beside her attorney, who told reporters at a long, rambling news conference that she wants their marriage...

LAKE MARY — Lake Mary police Chief Steve Bracknell hinted in a recent email exchange that he thinks George Zimmerman may be a threat to public safety.
That came in an exchange last week with a West Coast man who complained about how Bracknell's...

SANFORD — It was a moment of high drama as murder suspect George Zimmerman stood in front of a judge and answered her questions in a calm, clear voice: Yes, he knows he is giving up a chance to spare himself a trial but, no, he does not want a "stand...

Monday
In opening statements, attorneys took vastly different paths.
Assistant State Attorney John Guy was passionate, profane and loud. He dropped the f-bomb several times, using the words Zimmerman had said to a police dispatcher moments before the...

SANFORD — In a phone call with a police dispatcher minutes before he shot Trayvon Martin, murder defendant George Zimmerman said off-handedly, "[Expletive] punks."
On Tuesday, that phrase became one of the most important of the trial so far.
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